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D. H. CRONIN, Editor.
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Superintendent elect Berkley,
of Brown connty, would do well to
emulate the example set by county
superintendent-elect of Burt.
A. A. Looan, editor of the Creigh
ton Courier, has been appointed
¥ postmaster at that place. Art is an
old Holt county boy and took his
first lessons in the art preservative
in the offioe of the Atkinson Graphic.
The Illinois fanner who sent Mr.
Bryan sixteen small heads of white
cabbage as a token of admiration no
donbt did so upon the principle of
the entemal fitness of things, bat he
failed to take into account the ruth
less cynicism of mankind—New
York Advertiser.
Thb Independent in its last issue
19 : made a very virulent and vindictive
assault upon Supervisor Coombs. It
stated that Mr. Coombs was not
V competent to perform the duties of
the office. If not, will the syndicate
please informs us why the populist
members of the present board, after
serving one year with him, elected
m:' him chairman of the board ?
It hasn’t been but a few years
since the pop party’s chief campaign
thunder was that salaries paid to
county officers was too high, some
of the most enthusiastic going so far
as to say that they should be out 50
per oent They have held most of
the county offices in the state for the
last 'four years, but not an instance
has occurred where they have pro
posed a out
—. » «•» -
If the pop newspaper editors of
Holt county would devote less space
to calamity howling they would do
more good for the community in
which they live. It only tends to
keep the people in a state of unrest
They have won about all the offices
in the county and their continual
harping on soulless corporations, the
heartless money power and grinding
monopolies is only done to keep alive
the spark of discontent which they
have kindled in the hearts of the
people so that when the next election
rolls around it will be easier to fan
it into a blase.
Euboldimbd by his success in boy
cotting* few weak-kneed republi
> 5 can bnaineee men of Atkinson into
voting for him at the last election
for sheriff, John Stewart is now
jr» threatening to boycott the balance
of the repnblioan business men of
Atkinson because they refuse to sub
scribe for and advertise in his news
paper, the Atkinson Plain Dealer,
s, Such tactics might prove effective in
f Hw d»ik ages but in days of modern
civilisation when every person is
master of their own actions coercion
| of this kind will rebound to the
> . determent of the instigator.
r Lsaoanto men are getting sick and
tod °f hearing so much calamity
talk from their head officers, as is
evidenced by the reducing to the
Jipvi ranks last Friday of Grand Master
Workman Soverign six months be
fore the expiration of his term.
Such men as Soverign and Debs are
v’ ' ‘ «u injury to the laboring dement.
Their whole aim and object is to
' • create disoord and distrust among
the people whom they represent.
Now, if the masses of the pop party
will muzzle their newspapers and
V relegate their leaders to the rear,
t. r more happiness would be felt among
the people.
It mass's seem to set well on
: ’ v Assistant Editor McHugh’s stomach
because Supervisor Moss’ son came
home to vote two years ago, thru
|j ^electing his father; It was fortu
nate for the people of Holt oounty
kt" toil he did, for he has proved to be
an efficient and capable officer, and
It will be a long time before the
^ people of the Sixth district will be
c as well represented. Mr. Moss de
clined to run ot the last election be
V cause he had ■ held the office three
|||: f terms. ’ If - he had made the race
there would have been noSupervisoi
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Will Hayes for the next two years.
The assistant editor of the Inde
pendent would command more res
pect from his readers if he exposed
the disreputable methods employed
by the pop ring in trying to defeat
Mr. Moss two years ago. Men were
Bent into his district ten days before
election, from districts where they
were not needed, iu order to defeat
him. The same tactics have been
pursued in all close supervisor dis
tricts, and it iB about time to call a
nait.
——
In the fall of 1890 the entire pop
ulist state ticket was defeated be
yond' a question of doubt, with one
exception. The question of doubt
was on governor. However, they
commenced a contest which went
against them. The pop legislature
of last winter, six years later, al
lowed John H. Powers for expenses
in contest for the office of governor,
$187.15; J. V. Wolfe, who is now
the pop commissioner of public lands
and buildings, $400 for payment of
expenses and counsel fees in his con
test for the office of state treasurer;
W. P. Wright, $210, contest expen
ses for the office of commissioner of
publio lands and buildings, and C.
M. Mabury $500 for contest expen
ses for the office of secretary of state.
With the possible exception of
Powers, not one of the above was
entitled to a cent, but if they were
the legislature of six years ago
should have allowed it These re
formers have Bimply robbed the tax
payers of $1,297.15. Such is re
form.
NEW ENGLAND IS MS,
SoaM Curious HodN of (expression Com
mon Among Uowneasters.
f In one town at least •voour" was
formerly uied only In the sense of
washing with soap and a new resident
was startled when a neighbor, men
tioning the duties of a busy Saturday
afternoon, ended, 'and then I must
scour Rebeoen" (her adopted daugh
ter). The stranger, associating the
word with sand and scrubbing brush,
timidly asked. “How!*' and was great
ly relieved by the explanation. A
•sightly" room or house is one
commanding a wide prospect—thenoe
sometimes passing Into the sense of
pleasant or attractive.
To ‘sense" anything is to under
stand. to be brought to a realizing
sense" of it It is often said of one
so crushed by affiiotion as to be seem
lnglv stupefied. “He seemed not to
sense it” There Is a certain degree
of modification, says the Chautau
quan. a lack of self-assertion in a
common method of stating an opinion
“I presume to say," as seeming to
Imply a modest hesitation in the
sponsor. It oeasea however, to be
graceful when it oeases to be gram
matical and Is degraded into “I pre
sume likely."
••Likely" in common parlanoe often
refers to looks and appearanoe denot
ing pleasing or estimable a shade of
its common meaning, ‘probable" ap
pears in the phrase *« likely youqg
man" applied to a promising youth,
one in whom a shrewd eye discerns
capacity, a likelihood of suocess.
> A BUSY MAN.
The Tramp Who Woe Looking for Some
thing to UeU
Just as s Csss avenue man turned
into hla gate he met a tramp coming
out
••Hera” said the gentleman,
•you’re the very man I’m looking
for. ”
"I ain't done nothing sir.” pleaded
the tramp.
"Oh. 1 don't suppose you have. I
don’t Imagine you ever did. but 1
want you to now."
"What la It sirf" trembled the
tramp.
"Will yon do tome work for me
out there In the book yard right
awayP"
The wanderer’s face lost its lines of
care for he felt that he was safe.
"I’d love tn sir," he said, "love to
the best In the world, but really I
can’t do it now, for I'm busy.”
' BusyP" and the gentleman’s sur
prise was manifest In his tone
•Yea sir; busy."
• Busy at what I'd like to know r
"Busy tryin* to get a bite sir. I
haven't had anything to eat since last
night and I've been to tifty houses.
Your oook refused me about five min
utes age and I've got to hust e ei go
hungry. I’m dead sorry, sir. but
you'll have to get somebody else to
work. Bye bye” and he shied
around the corner and got away_
Detroit Free Press.
Me mad Grown.
▲ father was very muoh annoyed
by the foolish questions of hla little
son.
•Johnny, you are a great souroe of
annoyance to me"
•■What's the matter, pa?”
"You ask so many foolish ques
tions. I wasn't a big donkey when I
was of your age”
"lift pe but you have grown a
heap since”—Tessa Siftings
X Belle or Hainan Kale.
The original autograph commission
of Captain Nathan Hale of Connecti
cut the martyr spy of the revolution,
was sold for tl. 776 at a recent anotion
In New London. The state of Coe
noctiout seat a bid of (350, but it was
bought by a dm of autograph dealsra
who mow hold it at 16,000.
HE FELT LIKE CRUSOE.
A Naturalist Find* *«t Island in the PM*
rifle Inhabited by Convicts.
George W. Dunn, the naturalist
and collector for the world’s fair and
different educational institutions and
museums, has be- n exploring the
little-known and curious island of
Guadalupe.
He tells a story in the San Fran
, eisco Examiner almost as strange as
any by Defoe. The island lies out in
the Pacific, eighty miles off the
Lower California coast, and almost
opposite Cape San Sebastian. It is
thirteen miles long and four wide,and
is made up of mountain and valley
land, the mountains rising to a height
of 4,500 feet
“I went down there,” said Mr.
Dunn, “in a little seven-ton sloop
from San Diego, and after a good
deal of trouble got ashore by jumping
on a piece of projecting rock, t was
well rewarded by what I saw, for
altogether it was about the strangest
place I over got into.
“The foliage was beautiful. The
island is partly open and partly
covered with trees, consisting of
three kinds of palms, cypress, pines,
oaks and others* every one different
from those on the mainland. That
to me was a ourious thing. They
were only eighty miles away, top.
“I had not been on the island long
till I ran into bevies of odd little
brown wrens. They swarmed every
where and were veiy inquisitive.
When I sat down on rocks to rest
the wrens would come and light on
my boots and look into my face in
quiringly, as if to ask what I Was
doing there. They were not afraid,
for they knew extremely little about
man.
“The only human beings on the
island were about twenty refractory
Mexicans, who were there to look
after goats. Mexico uses it as a sort
of penal colony, and that is princi
pally why they were there. They
were not allowed to lire a gun. and
when they wanted any goats they
had to run them down or lasso them.
“As these goats have been there
many years, have increased to 30,000
and become as wild as deer, you can
judge what a feat it Is to get one of
them. As I. saw the fleet greasers
after them over the rocks 1 was re
minded strongly of the experience of
Crusoe in Juan Fernandez.# It was
equally as strange, and it was true.
“The Mexicans ran with wonderful
speed. Up a mountain or down or
sidewise, it made no difference. And
they almost always got their goat. I
saw them run over piles of rocks and
along the edges of preciDices.
“They were just as sure-footed as
the goats, and nothing is supposed to
excel, if indeed to approach, a goat in
speed and ability to climb safely over
dangerous places.
“Sometimes they would get almost
upon them and then throw their las
soes. At other times they would
simply run a goat down. There was
rarely ever more than one greaser
after a goat. The horns and bones
of the dead goats are piled in places
many feet thick on the ground.
“There are a lot of wild cats down
there, too. Years ago somebody let
loose some domestic cats down there.
You know how fast they increase.
There are lots of them there now, and
everywhere over the hills you may
see both cats and goats. I suppose
the cats live on both birds and fish.
The climate is so advantageous, how
ever, that there is always varied an
imal life there.
“Une other strange thing 1 found
in addition to the many I have al
luded to, was that if I wanted any
water I had to go up hill to get it.
The springs are all on top of the
mountains. You never find them
down by tha shore.
“While wandering about full of
wonder at what I saw I found an old
crater on top of the mountain chain,
midway in the island. The dead
crater was ourious to behold. It was
about 500 feet across and almost that
deep. All about it was smooth and
broken lava. Piles of basalt were
scattered here and there. Earth
quakes nad shaken and half closed
the crater.
“The captain of my sloop was
having a hard time outside. The
wind came up lively, and continued
to blow steadily, so that I couldn’t
get aboard of her. The result was I
had to stay on the island five days,
during whloh I had to live about all
the time on the edible palms."
Why Engineers Leave tha Navy.
Chief Engineer Nathan P. Town,
who has been on duty for several
years in the bureau of steam engin
eering of the navy department, has
been granted two years’ leave of ab
sence. It is probable that Town will
not return to duty at the expiration
of his leave. The lucrative position
of chief designer with the firm of
Cramp & Sons, the great ship-build
ing establishment of Philadelphia,
has been tendered to him, but he has
taken no action on the offer. Apro
pos of Mr. Town's offer, attention is
called to the fact that a number of
naval officers have resigned within
the last few years to go with big na
val and engineering firms. Nearly
all of these have been members of
the engineer corps. The causes that
have led them to resign from the
navy have been poor pay for the abil
ity displayed, slow promotion, long
service at sea, and the main reason—
superior offers in salary and work by
the private firms. One of the younger
members of the engineering Corps is
now receiving a salary of $10,000 a
year from a private firm_New York
Tribune.
Something to Foil Back On,
English Lord, at the gaming table
—Pm down to the last hundred
pounds I have in the world.
Friend—Stake it If you do lose, all
is not lost There are plenty of rich
la la America.
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